Michael Balcon Movies

  • 1936
    Tudor Rose

    Tudor Rose

    Tudor Rose

    8.11936HD

    The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

    Tudor Rose
  • 1952
    Mandy

    Mandy

    Mandy

    6.91952HD

    London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up....

    Mandy
  • 1927
    Ghost Train

    Ghost Train

    Ghost Train

    81927HD

    Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is...

    Ghost Train
  • 1948
    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    5.91948HD

    Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of...

    Saraband for Dead Lovers
  • 1947
    Hue and Cry

    Hue and Cry

    Hue and Cry

    6.21947HD

    A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer...

    Hue and Cry
  • 1957
    The Shiralee

    The Shiralee

    The Shiralee

    5.1071957HD

    An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town...

    The Shiralee
  • 1950
    The Magnet

    The Magnet

    The Magnet

    6.31950HD

    A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

    The Magnet
  • 1932
    The Midshipmaid

    The Midshipmaid

    The Midshipmaid

    01932HD

    Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...

    The Midshipmaid
  • 1942
    Go to Blazes

    Go to Blazes

    Go to Blazes

    101942HD

    Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

    Go to Blazes
  • 1939
    The Four Just Men

    The Four Just Men

    The Four Just Men

    6.21939HD

    The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or...

    The Four Just Men
  • 1946
    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart

    6.21946HD

    A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part...

    The Captive Heart
  • 1945
    Pink String and Sealing Wax

    Pink String and Sealing Wax

    Pink String and Sealing Wax

    61945HD

    Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her...

    Pink String and Sealing Wax
  • 1978
    How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran

    How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran

    How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran

    01978HD

    American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed...

    How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran
  • 1931
    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    6.51931HD

    On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a...

    The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • 1956
    The Feminine Touch

    The Feminine Touch

    The Feminine Touch

    61956HD

    Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s...

    The Feminine Touch
  • 1935
    Car of Dreams

    Car of Dreams

    Car of Dreams

    5.61935HD

    Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in...

    Car of Dreams
  • 1925
    The Rat

    The Rat

    The Rat

    01925HD

    When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron,...

    The Rat
  • 1936
    Rhythm in the Air

    Rhythm in the Air

    Rhythm in the Air

    01936HD

    A young riveter working high up on a steel girder watches a girl practising a tap-dance in a building opposite, and while applauding her, he loses...

    Rhythm in the Air
  • 1942
    The Black Sheep of Whitehall

    The Black Sheep of Whitehall

    The Black Sheep of Whitehall

    7.21942HD

    A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

    The Black Sheep of Whitehall
  • 1944
    They Came to a City

    They Came to a City

    They Came to a City

    61944HD

    People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

    They Came to a City